RE: Struts development methodology

2004-09-21 Thread Victor Grazi
Thanks. Yes, IE. It is for an intranet and that is the required and only supported browser by the bank. Regards/Victor -Original Message- From: Brett Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:55 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Struts

RE: Struts development methodology

2004-09-15 Thread Guillermo Meyer
We are also working with Struts in a banking application. In our case the requeriment was to have skinning capabilities, so we develop a framework to manage skins and then open sourced it to Xkins (http://xkins.sourceforge.net/) Our approach is to determine the pieces of the UI. We create a mock

Re: Struts development methodology

2004-09-15 Thread Vic
Yes, using versioning they can all work together. Yes, UI developers MUST be ahead of Java, else Java people don't know what they should implement. This is all normal and regular and benefit of a layerd framework. What you do in iterative development is "fake" the data, unill the back end CRUD i

Re: Struts development methodology

2004-09-14 Thread Brett Connor
Sounds like a case for mock objects and actions perhaps. I like this kind of approach because it is useful for early prototyping and testing, leaving a clear seperation between the responsibilities either side of this interface, and supports the 'test driven' approach. I have little experience

Re: Struts development methodology

2004-09-14 Thread Aditya Kapur
We always have the UI folks pototype in Dreanweaver, then Java folks will put merge it with Struts tags. Once the app is working then a combination of dreamweaver and notepad does the job. On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:35 -0400, Victor Grazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure I understand. > What's a

Re: Struts development methodology

2004-09-14 Thread Victor Grazi
Not sure I understand. What's a CVS? Are u referring to a versioning tool? Yes we have that. The ui developers can do wysiwyg development using struts tags in Dreamweaver. The problem is when they go to view there work in IE, they can't, because the Java people don't work as fast as the ui folks

Re: Struts development methodology

2004-09-14 Thread Vic
Struts works great for this. I assume you have a CVS, and then leverage the HTML people to write and maintain your JSP pages. They can use the html input tags or what ever, and DW has plugins for JSP tag libs, any and all. The java People can write formbeans that map to the html forms and unit

Re: Struts development methodology

2004-09-14 Thread Don Brown
Why not combine Struts with Velocity: http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/tools/struts/ Velocity is really easy to learn and is Dreamweaver-friendly. Don On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:28 -0400, Victor Grazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are developing an important struts application for a major bank,